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| === '''Concept:''' ===
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| I remember leaning my head into my neck,
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| Ash falls like Snow,
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| Weightless,
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| As a child, I used to stick out my tongue to taste the first snow sometime around December,
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| Snow has become rare and the ash - now - tastes bitter,
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| I remember loading frightened animals in and onto dirty trucks,
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| I remember driving down into a valley,
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| Ash falls like Snow from the sky and the wall of fire is slowly eating its way down the mountain in front of me,
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| Everything is in slow motion,
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| The world is almost weightless - almost unreal,
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| A child is sitting next to me at the beach and we look at burned wood being washed onto the shore,
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| “Everything will burn” the child says,
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| Eleven years old,
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| Her name is ''Zoi'',
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| ''Zoi'' in greek means life,
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| Everything feels slow,
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| Almost weightless,
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| Almost like a dream,
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| Virtually unreal,
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| Only the catastrophe alert on my phone reminds me everyday that I’m not dreaming,
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| 125.000 hectare forest burned that summer on ''Evia'' Island Greece,
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| But the scenes strangely fixed in my memory are:
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| The beauty of the Ash falling like Snow,
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| The constant red sun, the all-day sunset,
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| Clouds that were not white but black,
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| The nights sky that was not black, but red,
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| The Russian airplanes extinguishing the fires because of the remains of an orthodox saint in the church close by,
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| And again and again: The ash like snow - White Christmas in 38 degree burning heat.
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| Now I ask myself:
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| What are the aesthetics of catastrophes?
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| How do aesthetics relate to the un-normal?
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| Will the apocalypse be beautiful?
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| How much pain must be held in aesthetic experiences?
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| Can everything be aesthetic when seen from a new perspective?
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| And why do astronauts always describe the beauty of the earth once they look back at it?
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| ATTENTION, ORGANISATION, ACTION | | ATTENTION, ORGANISATION, ACTION |
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